Just in case systemd is wrong ... 1) ps ax | grep cup 2) grep -r cup /var/log
I'm not familiar w/ Ubuntu/Debian, but the first command is simply looks for anything in the process table that matches 'cup'. The second command does a recursive search for the pattern in your log files/folder. On July 3, 2016 11:03:05 AM PDT, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, John Meissen <j...@meissen.org> wrote: > >> >> denis.heidtm...@gmail.com said: >> > That is what I did: >> > sudo systemctl stop cups.service: >> > no messages in response. >> > sudo systemctl restart cups.service. >> > Msg: "failed to restart cups.service unit cups.service is >masked" >> >> Have you tried >> >> sudo systemctl unmask cups.service >> >> sudo systemctl enable cups.service >> > >That sounded like a good idea, but this is what I get: >~$ sudo systemctl unmask cups.service >[sudo] password for denis: >Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/cups.service. > >~$ sudo systemctl enable cups.service >cups.service is not a native service, redirecting to >systemd-sysv-install >Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable cups > >Still not connected. Tried: >~$ sudo systemctl restart cups.service > >No dice. The GUI reports "Printing service is not available. Start >the >service on this computer or connect to another server." > >The button for "start service" is not active. If I choose connect, I >get: >failed to connect to server. > >Aside from fixing this, I wonder what broke it? > >-Denis >_______________________________________________ >PLUG mailing list >PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug